A Chinese-American group has partnered with major mental health institutions, including universities and psychiatric clinics, in an effort to raise mental health awareness among Asian-American communities and help them fight depression and other forms of mental illness.
More and more, culture is becoming an important element in Chinese people's lives. Little wonder that one of the targets of the newly released 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-2020) is to build China's culture industry into a pillar of the national economy.
Orville Schell, one of the earliest correspondents in China for The New Yorker magazine, arrived in the mid-1970s. He sat in a hotel room in Beijing and looked at the telephone, thinking, "There is literally no one to call."
Slower-than-expected growth in China's economy is a major reason for the decline in diamond prices, according to a study.
China's growing clout in international affairs has seen it rise to become the third-largest contributor to the United Nations regular budget, according to a senior Chinese official to the global body.
At least 11 people died and dozens were injured in severe storms and tornadoes that continued to hit parts of the southern US states of Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas.
A move from a California-based electric car manufacturer to locate a new $1 billion manufacturing plant outside of Las Vegas could signal the arrival of a new player in the electric car market.
America Modern Green, a US subsidiary of Modern Land China Co Ltd, recently signed a partnership agreement with Houston local real estate developer Sueba USA to develop its $300 million Ivy District in Pearland, Texas, and to join Sueba's other projects in the Greater Houston area.
President Xi Jinping has heard Washington state’s call for a couple of pandas and he is listening.
China rejects US criticism against its draft law on terrorism and urges Washington to refrain from applying "double standards" in fighting terrorism.
College protests have been in the news a lot this year, with "safe spaces", Halloween costumes and professors' "microaggressions" some of the flashpoints. But a more piquant issue has emerged from the dining halls of Oberlin College in Ohio.
California, which has more immigrants than any other state, has seen increasing immigration in the last decade from China, which has overtaken Mexico as the top sending country.
Shipping bankruptcy strands ships, roils maritime cargo industry